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  <h2 class="calibre5">Add the Author and Title</h2>

  <p class="calibre1">In addition to the actual content of your book, EPUB files also contain book details like Author and Title. These can be added with Sigil.</p>

  <p class="calibre1">To add details (called metadata) about your book to your EPUB, click the Metadata Editor button <img alt="metadata-editor_22px" src="../Images/metadata-editor_22px.png" class="calibre7"/> or the menu item <span class="shortcut">Tools→Metadata Editor:</span></p>

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  <p class="calibre1">You may notice that the Metadata Editor already has one detail about your book – the last time you modified the file. This is added or updated each time you save the book in Sigil. There are many other details you can add, but the entries required by an EPUB are Title, Author, and Language.</p>

  <p class="calibre1">To add the Title, Author, and Language to your book:</p>

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    <li class="calibre4"><span class="listheading">Title:</span> Type the full title of your book.</li>

    <li class="calibre4"><span class="listheading">Author:</span> Type the author’s name, for example enter <span class="example">Lewis Carroll</span>.</li>

    <li class="calibre4"><span class="listheading">Language:</span> Select the primary language the book was written in from the drop-down box.</li>

    <li class="calibre4"><span class="listheading">File-As:</span> This is actually optional so it can be left blank. But it is usually included as it controls how the author's name is sorted. Type the author’s name as it should be sorted, for example enter <span class="example">Carroll, Lewis</span>.</li>
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  <p class="calibre1">This is how your data might look when filled in:</p>

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  <p class="calibre1">Once you have updated the information, you can click <span class="buttonbox">OK</span> and then save <img alt="button-save" src="../Images/button-save.png" class="calibre7"/> your EPUB again.</p>

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    <p class="tiptext">You may have noticed that there is a lot of room for other values in the Metadata Editor. Only the Title, Author, and Language are required for EPUBs, but if you want to add more values using the <span class="buttonbox1">Add Basic</span> or <span class="buttonbox1">Add Role</span> buttons you can.</p>

    <p class="tiptext">See the <a href="../Text/metadata.html">Metadata Editor</a> chapter for more details.</p>
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